Latin American Studies

Professor, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Research interests: Caribbean literatures, art and cinema; literature and place; border studies (especially concerning the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic); literature and the environment; migration and literature; human rights and literature; literature and the visual arts; contemporary poetry; literary and filmic rewritings, adaptations, translation and comparative studies; contemporary Caribbean and US relations (especially regarding the Dominican and Haitian Diasporas); the work of Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Junot Diaz, and Edwidge Danticat; postcolonial studies; women writing; Italian cinema and literature

Lecturer, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Human Rights; Indigenous Peoples; Sustainable Development; Social Movements; Refugees

Lecturer, EBS - Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management

Research interests: international environmental politics and transnational civic activism (focus: forest issues/ the Amazon); globalization, sustainable development and environmental justice; the role of NGOs and corporations in processes of environmental governance; ideas of nature within the contemporary environmental movement

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Intercultural and Interlanguage Pragmatics (pragmatic aspects of conversational interactions between native and non-native speakers); Pragmatics in language teaching; Pragmatics in translation

Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)

Professor, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Research interests: History of slavery and post-emancipation societies; Agrarian and peasant history; Political history of Nineteenth and twentieth century Brazil; Latin American popular culture; Capoeira - combat games and martial arts in the Black Atlantic

Professor, Department of Sociology

Research interests: Indigenous Peoples; Human Rights; Ethnic Studies; Colonialism; American Studies; Environmental Issues; Arts and Literature

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Hispanic Cinema; Language and culture

Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)